After years of squabbling with a succession of mining companies and joint ventures, environmentalists acquiesced and agreed to let a gold mine go forward. They succeeded in beating back an open-pit mine that would no doubt have been much more destructive and got the right to do their own monitoring to see if the underground mine they agreed to is polluting or not.
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A newly opened office building in Seattle has no air-conditioning, and yet employees say they stayed cool even when the temperature hit 80 the other day — without even opening the windows. The eco-friendly cooling system and other innovations are expected to cut the energy costs by 30 percent.
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